Virtual reality (VR) stands as an experiencing things through our computer that don’t really exist. Instead of viewing a screen in front of them, users are immersed and able to interact with 3D worlds. As it works by sending information to various senses, such as sight and hearing, that fool our brains into experiencing something virtual. The illusion is often completed by the presence of interactivity, in other words the virtual world responds in some way to your presence.
Everything that we know about our reality comes by way of our senses. In other words, our entire experience of reality is simply a combination of sensory information and our brains sense-making mechanisms for that information. It stands to reason then, that if you can present your senses with made-up information, your perception of reality would also change in response to it. You would be presented with a version of reality that isn’t really there, but from your perspective it would be perceived as real. Something we would refer to as a virtual reality.
Why do we need virtual reality?
Whenever we find something expensive or impractical to do in reality, virtual reality is the answer. Virtual reality allows us to take virtual risks in order to gain real world experience. As the cost of virtual reality goes down and it becomes more mainstream you can expect more serious uses, such as education or productivity applications, to come to the fore.
How is virtual reality achieved?
Although we talk about a few historical early forms of virtual reality elsewhere on the site, today virtual reality is usually implemented using computer technology. There are a range of systems that are used for this purpose, such as headsets, omni-directional treadmills and special gloves. These are used to actually stimulate our senses together in order to create the illusion of reality.
This is more difficult than it sounds, since our senses and brains are evolved to provide us with a finely synchronised and mediated experience. If anything is even a little off we can usually tell. This is where you’ll hear terms such as realism enter the conversation. These issues that divide convincing or enjoyable virtual reality experiences from unpleasant ones are partly technical and partly conceptual. Virtual reality technology needs to take our physiology into account.
If an implementation of virtual reality manages to get the combination of hardware, software and sensory synchronicity just right it achieves something known as a sense of presence Where the subject really feels like they are present in that environment.
This time Shopify has come up with new features that define a future of commerce, and to give the partner and developer community a look at our product roadmaps.
There are some features that make your store more secure and flexible to develop and manage.
Here’s what’s new
Sections on every page: Shopify now introduces section-based editing to any page of a merchant’s store, giving them the ultimate flexibility to create and customize pages to their needs.
Enable section on a page
Navigate to Online store > Pages
Select Product pages
Select a product page to open the online store editor
On the left sidebar of the online store editor, click … > page settings
Click the “Enable sections” button.
Click < Page editing button.
You will now see “Product pages” added as a section and an additional button with “Add section”
NOTE: When enabling sections, this occurs on a per page basis. Enabling sections on one page does not mean that all pages get sections added to them.
Master pages: This new feature will allow merchants to add a section to multiple pages at once. If a merchant chooses to make a change to multiple pages at the same time, then they can select the “Master page” button in the bottom left of the editor. Doing this allows merchants to add one section that would be visible across all of their product pages.
There are master pages for:
Product pages
Collection pages
Custom pages
Blogs posts
Draft changes: This appears on the online store page. Drafts changes let merchants edit and preview updates before publishing.
Once a merchant hits the “start editing” button, they are taken into the online store editor. The top bar in the online store editor will let merchants know that the session they are in is a draft session with a label in the top left of the online store editor.
In drafts changes, a merchant can edit their pages, blog posts, and theme. Once they are done with the changes, they have two choices on how to proceed:
Save
If a merchant saves draft changes, then their live store will be unaffected and the changes they have saved will remain in the draft area. The changes will only appear on their live store if the merchant goes back into the online store editor and publishes the changes.
Publish
A merchant can choose to make edits in the drafts changes and then make them live immediately. If a merchant wants to publish their changes, then they can click on the continue editing button and hit the Publish button in the top right of the online store editor. After this, the summary tab will appear and inform Merchants of all changes made within their editing session.
Selling in multiple currencies with Shopify Payments
Shopify has launched the selling in multiple currencies feature offers prices in that customer’s local currency—an experience that carries through to the checkout. This pricing automatically adjusts based on foreign-exchange rates and displays buyer-friendly prices with simple rounding rules. This feature currently supports 10 key currencies: GBP, AUD, CAD, EUR, HKD, JPY, NZD, DKK, SGD, and USD.
Sell in multiple languages
To provide a quick, complete , and reliable multilingual experiences shoplify has introduce a new feature which help merchant to sell their product in multiple languages.
Order Editing APIs
The ability to add flexibility can make or break a customer experience. That’s why Shopify merchants will soon be able to edit open orders at the buyer’s request.
This new order editing features will enable apps to add, remove, or replace items before the line item has been fulfilled, offering merchants more post-purchase flexibility and ensuring customers get exactly what they want.
UI changes
Top bar
Undo and redo arrows: These buttons will undo or redo the last edits to your store.
The search bar: You can navigate to various pages within your online store, rather than having to click through the preview options like today. When a merchant clicks on the product pages, for example, they would be presented with a list of all product pages in alphabetical order.
From here, you can go to product pages, custom pages, collection pages, blog posts, blog pages.
To the right of the search bar is the device picker. A merchant can choose to view their store either in full-screen mode, mobile view, or in a preview mode.
The Summary tab. This will be a drop-down that gives Merchants a resource-based summary of what has changed in their editing session.
Why Node.js could be best
for your next web application
Thinking
of making a web application by using Node.js? then YES, you are at right place.
You can make web application by using other platforms but why Node.js? why should I prefer Node.js? what are advantages over other platforms? why it is efficient? Stop. Stop…Relax. I will tell you how it could be your choice for developing your next Web Application.
So,
Let’s jump into this, but before we have to understand what is Node.js?
Node.js
Node.js is free open source server environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser, it also runs on various platforms like Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc. It allows developers to make web servers and networking tools because of the effective use of JS.
The
main reason for Node.js being the most used development environment is that it
increases developer’s productivity, reduce the cost of development as well as
increase application performance, it can generate dynamic page content and can
create, open, read, write, delete, and close files on the server.
Making
a Web app using Node.js follows your application having a upper hand over
others from getting recognized from google search engine, Web apps mostly rely
on Node.js to carry HTML.
Node.js
has become the most popular development platform with 7 million instances
online ten out of eight are planning to use Node.js in future shortly.
As you can
see that almost 49.6% of people use Node.js whereas angular is used by 36.9%
and react 27.8%, It has easily had the upper hand over the other popular platforms.
So, Let’s see the uses of Node JS.
Uses
1.
Easy to learn
Node.js
is easy to learn, for understanding Node.js you just need to have basic
knowledge of Javascript like loops, functions, variables, arrays, arrow
functions, and many more. Most of the JavaScript Developers preferred Node.js
because it is very easy to catch Node.js
2.
Streaming of data
Node.js
allows users to upload file in real time and also user can encode file while
it’s uploading, You can also make an application for streaming audio and video
like Netflix.
It
also helps to build proxies between data layers.
3.
Single page web apps
If
you compare multi page and single page web application one difference you will
find out that multi page application takes time to load on the user side, Obviously
We don’t want our application to load slowly on client side so if we create
single page application it will run faster than multi page application.
Single
page applications are easier and fast to load on the client side. Node.js
provides quick response time that makes app load faster and also provides
sharing of data between user and server.
4.
Real-time applications
Want
to make a chat application? Node.js is extraordinary when it comes to building
real-time chatting application and game apps.
Below
are the benefits you can check of making an webapp with Node.js
–
faster
–
data streaming
–
Real-time Apps
–
Fast coding
In
chatting apps, it is the real-time application so it must be lightweight
because if it’s not then it will slow down the application and also take time
to deliver or receive data.
There
are big giant companies like Netflix, LinkedIn, Paypal, Uber, Nasa uses Node.js
for their productivity.
5.
APIs
We
can create REST APIs very efficient way. In Node.js we don’t need to convert
JSON and whatever from database API does this automatically.
6.
Scalability
Scalability
is of the feature of Node.js when you have to serve requests just spin up more
server instances and run node there.
Node.js
scalability does not depend on the hardware power, hardware plays a role but a
Node can scale horizontally so you can add more machines that work together.
7.
Community
A big community of Node.js provides modules which is the big reason why Node.js is popular, The great modules is provided by the large open source community, There are many effective modules that connect between client and server.
Conclusion
So as per the points I think
now you have got an idea that why should you go for Node.js for your next web app.
If you make an
application using node.js then it will be easy and fast coding and also good
for streaming plus it can handle traffic on the app so the app will not slow
down because of the high traffic and if you want to make an application that
needs real-time users data then you know what I am going to say it.
Thinking of making a
web app??, You have got the million-dollar idea that will change the world but
still you have not changed the world. As per saying “The idea is alone not important,
It’s the execution that matters”
JavaScript is currently being used by more
than 94 percent of all the websites. the framework which you use is equally Important, there
are lots of JavaScript Frameworks which you can use from like Vue, Node,
Express and many more. But the two frameworks which has been on everybody’s lip
is none other that React and Angular.
Which is best then???
In this blog, We will
go into the details of React and Angular Framework, what are their plus points
and what are their Minus points and which framework do you choose for your next
Web app??
React JS
ReactJS is a JavaScript library that combines the speed of
JavaScript and uses a new way of rendering webpages, making them highly dynamic
and responsive to user input. Below you can see how far React js
has come from the start.
Pros
Reusing Components
They can
actually reuse the components that was developed some other application sharing
the same functionality which helps in saving time and resources.
This will
not only help in delivering the project faster but to since, there is less
coding in ReactJS, there is less chances of creating errors.
Dynamic Web apps
Creating Web apps in React js are very easy, We can easily
create Dynamic web apps. Before it was very complex, but after that the implementation
of React js, It has solved many issues.
React js also supports machine readable codes and mix components
into single time variable file.
SEO
Reactjs
allow search engines to crawl the website or mobile app that increases the
chances of getting ranked on the top of the search engine index. By running on
a server, rendering it as a regular web page and returning a virtual DOM
request to the browser; the React js allow search engines to crawl
JavaScript-heavy apps.
As
React is using JavaScript to load its pages and load the content in most cases.
Google and other search engines are able to read the content but it’s always
required in these cases to check what the actual result is so the React is good
for SEO.
Community
Large Community is one of big advantages for React js Developers,
It gives flexibility to the developers to find a library for any task they want
to implement.
For
example, if you want to search for a NPM, you will find various packages to
work on with React JS and you will get support from the Facebook if you are stuck
somewhere and that is why React js Developers are increasing day by day.
Redux
Going to make your components be able to transfer data from one
to another, but when you have a lot of data that is/could be used all over the
place, it quickly becomes easier to go for a solution like Redux to allow
app-wide access. The alternative is a lot of props, ugly jsx-code and
debugger-hell.
Redux
is also a clear strategy to handle any API/database responses at a central
location. You don’t want those calls sprinkled all over your components.
Cons
Documentation
Documentation is good but it becomes bad when it comes up with
new releases of extremely new tools. Developers struggle with integrating these
tools with ReactJS.
Some Senior people, developers think that React
technologies are updating and accelerating so speedily that there is no proper
time to write the information.
High pace development
Nowadays,
High pace is everything and even React js, with consistently changes everything
from tool to its nature developers are trying hard to keep up with it. Everything
is evolving, and some developers are not comfortable with keeping up with such
a pace.
JSX
ReactJS
uses JSX, As some of you know JSX is a big no- no, Some developers of the development community consider JSX to
be a serious disadvantage. Developers and designers complain about JSX’s
complexity and consequent steep learning curve.
Angular js
“AngularJS is a JavaScript-based open-source front-end web
framework mainly maintained by Google and by a community of individuals and
corporations to address many of the challenges encountered in developing
single-page applications” – Wikipedia
Below you can see how this framework has gain its Worth.
Pros
Consistent Code
Code is Consistent in Angular JS, This
will improve the performance plus lower the cost of development, Code can be reusable
and easy maintainable in Angular JS.
Two-way data binding
In Angular, There is Two way data binding services
which makes easier and faster data binding, It will make sure that the changes
made are instantly shown in the model and the vice versa.
DOM manipulation
Manipulating Document Object model is one of the
ways that standout Angular js from other Javascript Frameworks. The workers saves
time and money and other efforts due to DOM Manipulation in Angular.
Community
Open source frameworks grow because of the
work of volunteers. To that end, Angular has a massive community that
contributes tons in the way of functionality and assistance. There’s no
shortage of help, including an active Slack community to get answers.
There are also copious amounts of
documentation from the project teams and from third-parties in the way of books
and videos. Self-learners will see there’s no problem finding how-to and
tutorials that cover the basics.
Server performance
The server performance is good because reduces the
hassle from server CPU’s, It means that the server performs extremely
well thanks to reduced traffic and because it only serves static files and
responds to the API calls.
Fast development
If you are a fast learner, you can get familiar with
AngularJS in no time. And once you feel fully comfortable working with it,
you will see that your development efforts and time spent dealing with it will
shrink.
Responsive web
Is there anything worst then not having responsive web in 2019??
Angular js provide us with the good responsive, Faster speed Loading and smooth
websites and Apps.
Cons
THE SCOPES
Scopes is not simple to handle and plus if it is the
first time to you are including with Angular, Then it will very difficult for
the first timers to adapt.
MVC
Developers’ Tend to go to go on Usual Routes but to
implement model-view-controller architecture patterns using angular JS can be heavy
task and what if the developer’s having In case you have hard deadlines to
meet, this might not be the right way to go. A resolution, however, could be to
hire some experienced if you wish to unlock the framework’s advantages.
DIFFICULT LEARNING
Rather than ensuring a straight learning graph, you
can have to face great trouble in getting adapted to the framework. However, the Definite documentation
available may further disturb the learning process. However, the day-by-day
approaching community is making it simpler.
Capable AngularJS developers deal with these as
minor hiccups as they openly promote its exciting cons.
Conclusion
As you have seen the
details, Popularity, Cons of React JS and Angular JS, You can now easily choose
which framework is best for your Web application.
If your preference is
in the search engine then you should go with React JS but if you focus on Responsive
web, Consistent code then you can go with Angular JS, Choice is yours.
Technologies and come and go, Once we have been messaging
our friends through letters and now we can just ping them even if they are
million kilometers away from us. Technology is the thing which is constantly
getting changed and getting better and best every second.
Different technologies have make a mark in the last some years, But the technology which have not only created a mark but be helpful to giants like Facebook, Airbnb, DropBox, IMDb, Instagram, Netflix, PayPal, Tesla Motors and many more are using React.js framework due to its great efficiency. The library which was first deployed on Facebook’s newsfeed and went on to be open-sourced in March 2013. Since then, React.js framework has become immensely popular for doing view rendering work both in large scale and in a single page application.
But the question is Will React JS Stay as it is or it will go other way around. Here we will discuss about React.
Dominating Frontend Library
From last years, Without a doubt the Dominating Frontend Library is React. Sure, Angular and Vue js and SASS is top of its game but still with the presence of Powerhouses like these, React has make its mark in this world.
Below is the image where you can see some of the Details that prove React has actually make a mark.
React In Production: AirBnB, Asana, Atlassian, BBC, Chegg, CloudFlare, CNN.com,
Codecademy, Coursera, Craftsy, Dailymotion, Dropbox, Expedia, Facebook, Feedly,
Flipboard, HipChat, IMDb, Imgur, Instagram, Khan Academy, KISSmetrics,
Mattermark, Minerva Project, Netflix, OkCupid, Rackspace, Rally Software, Ralph
Lauren, Reddit, Redfin, Salesforce, Squarespace, The New York Times, Trunk
Club, Twitter, Uber, University of Cincinnati, Venmo, WhatsApp, Wired, Wix,
WordPress, Yahoo, Zendesk
Good
for Business
It is good for business because it give the chance to enterprises to
make standout apps which will give them efficient services but visually engaging
user experience and user interface. Lots of small and large-scale business need
technology which have better user engagement, higher click-through-rates (CTR) and
Increase conversions. Lots of business prefer ReactJS because it assured of
better performance compared to those that use other frameworks. Preventing
updating of DOM is one of the reasons why people prefer React js and with DOM Manipulation
the applications will run smoothly and give the customers a good user
Easy to Use
Being
able to do variety of things is great, but only if you don’t have to spend the
rest of your life learning new technologies every time. React is easy to learn
and easy to use and comes with a good supply of documentation and training resources. Anyone who comes from a JavaScript
background can understand and start using React in a few days. This makes all
the great things it does even greater because you can actually use them in
short order.
It
is very easy to use for most of the developers, For The JavaScript developers they
can quickly and easily work with Reactjs. For HTML and CSS Developers The basic
knowledge will efficiently serve the purpose. For mobile app developers, the
React Native version offers multiple advantages over its competitors.
Performance and Flexiblity
Apps
with a lot of user interaction and data updates normally require a careful
consideration of how the app structure is going to impact performance. The
Document Object Model is very slow to change and update. A server constantly
checks the difference caused by the changes to give the necessary response. To
respond properly, it needs to update the DOM trees of the whole document, which
is not ergonomically valid nowadays DOM trees contain thousands of elements.
This problem is solved by using the virtual DOM.
As per Flexibility, It is React is only one piece of the puzzle. It has a very simple
implementation of state
(the stuff that changes around in the UI), but many interfaces need a more
robust implementation, Using and understanding React’s built-in state is
relatively easy, but many developers opt to use a more robust version.
Developer Tools and their Community
As per Research “Out of 23k developers , Almost 14k
developers prefer React over any other frontend Framework ”
New
technologies can be fun, but only if you can actually use them in a development
environment. That means having tools to help you design and debug the new
technology, and React is well covered in terms of design and debugging tools.
React Developer Tools, available for Chrome and Firefox, is a browser extension
for React. It allows you to inspect the React component hierarchies in the
virtual DOM. You can select individual components and examine and edit their
current properties and state. You can also track the hierarchy of any component
and discover both parent and child components. You can find them on Github,
Chrome store and many more.
Yes
React is here to Stay, As an open-source library with over 1,000 contributors,
React.js is constantly developing. Many things are already available, while the
rest of the codebase can be reused. Major changes to the framework go through
the Future of React repo, Issues and PR. This enables the community to provide
feedback on new potential features, experimental APIs, and JS syntax
improvements.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Reactjs
allow search engines to crawl the website or mobile app that increases the
chances of getting ranked on the top of the search engine index. By running on
a server, rendering it as a regular web page and returning a virtual DOM
request to the browser; the React js allow search engines to crawl
JavaScript-heavy apps.
As
React is using JavaScript to load its pages and load the content in most cases.
Google and other search engines are able to read the content but it’s always
required in these cases to check what the actual result is so the React is good
for SEO.
Conclusion
From
a troubleshooting idea, it has been transformed into the trendiest framework
and leader in performance and adoption of new design patterns. The extensive UI
library helps create features that address business issues, improve customer
satisfaction, and boost business growth.
React JS is the most trending Technology in 2019 and as you
have seen its advantages and growth to developers and business, Yes, It is here
to stay and it will not go anytime soon.
So you are thinking which medium to give
Priority UI or UX???
You are stuck with the Words like, “Which
will make my Website visually appealing and Fabulous”, “Which is important or
what if I should stick with only single thing and don’t give much attention to
the other thing”
Hold on There…. Let me tell you we all
are human beings and we tend to get confuse. Keep Reading I will explain you
which to use and how It can help you in making the choice as per your Project.
INTRODUCTION
The days were gone where we used to
sit on the monitor and enjoy ourselves with these greatest invention of all
time, Fast Forward, Today the importance of good visual designs to your website
and apps is equal to the conversions that your company make and that’s where UI
and UX enter in the game.
UI Stands
for User Interface Design generally refers to the visual elements of a
product or experience – the look and feel, the presentation and the
interactivity of a product. It’s the interface that the user interacts with and
makes the visuals unforgettable.
Whereas UX Stands for User experience design which is the process of
enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty by improving the usability, ease of
use, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the customer and the
product. (Wikipedia).
Simple???
Yes but No… We have to go dive deep into the advantages both of the medium gives
us. So, Let’s GO.
UI DESIGN
Have you seen a child how quickly
he or she knows how to operate a mobile or a laptop, that’s solely due to some
great user Interfaces design which can not only attract any person but flow in
their mind.
So how it will valuable to us??
Below are the advantages we get if we have good UI Design which will be valuable to us.
Increase Customer Conversion
If you are UI is good, it will drastically increase the customer conversion because your Product’s idea will come after, But firstly it’s the interface in which the user will flow and buy your Product.
Gains Customer Confidence
Your customer has already
visited number of sites over the internet and he or she somewhat knows what are
the Interfaces which will give them good vibes and what are the interfaces which
are giving them bad vibes.
Attractive and smooth UI will
not only gain customer trust but their confidence in your Product also.
Reduces the Confusion
As mentioned above, How can small
child easily adapt to our smartphones and laptop, Engaging stuff like games, Videos,
images is the factor no doubt, But the user interface which has been designed
keeping the large group of user is making an impact first.
Reduce Development Cost
User disappointment and
costly, time consuming redesigns are avoided as usability, presentation and behavior
are fully addressed in the design process.
UX Design
UX Design is a more focused on the overall experience than just the look of the site. UX is the skeleton to your body. UX is the reason why you can’t just start to make a product on the web. There are many advantages which are making UX top over everything.
User Centered Vision
Through user-centered vision we can make user centered design, we can gain a better understanding of the problems we need to solve. We can easily find the solutions we have to find to exclude users’ painpoints and improve our design solutions.
Engage the customer
We can truly engage the customer with our user experience
design so we can Treat the user as a customer, You’ll have a better
understanding of the user. You’ll be better able to deal with the user’s
emotions, requirements, requests, and needs and can learn everything else
necessary to provide a better solution.
Increase Revenue
By doing the research and planning in UX Design, we can create a
product that works for both your customers and organization. If you know your
customers we can create engaging content, and provide a good service,
everything should fall into place.
Discover the goal of
your user
A lot of research goes into UX design and during the process,
you will get a lot of opinions. These will shape your site design goals. With
your goals in mind, you should research your customer base by creating personas
and this will create a clear goal which will be beneficial to both of the sides.
Conclusion
So who is better UI or
UX, As you seen this blog, You have got the idea that UI is subset of UX. User experience (UX) is much wider term
which includes usability, learnability, effectiveness, user friendliness,
before and after service by the product/ product team and overall impression
that a brand or product impression leaves on customer’s mind.
But Both UI and UX completely rely on Each other, As you seen in
real world
Girl – Boy
Sun – Moon
Bone – Muscles
Camera – Movie
They can’t work if either one is lost. The same goes for UX and
UI, you cannot create a product without these two. UX is more
structure & strategic, on the other hand UI is more of visuals. If one domino goes
down the other domino goes too.
